Burma Volunteer Air Force

[leyreynolds]

I seem to remember an online article on this force but can't seem to find it now. Any ideas please?

[airbus]

http://www.aeroflight.co.uk/waf/aa-eastasia/burma/burma-bvaf-home.htm

[leyreynolds]

That's it. Thanks.

[Dave Fleming]

Picking this up late but it's worth getting a copy of the Air Britain Aeromilitaria No.1/1991 mentioned if BYAF interests you

Edited July 30, 2017 by Dave Fleming

[leyreynolds]

Thanks for the details, Dave. I picked a copy up on Ebay.

[Graham Boak]

You may realise this already Ley, if it concerns you at all, but I'll add here that the "Yales" were not the NA-64 Yale as in the RS model.  They were earlier variants of the fixed-undercarriage trainer closer to the BT-9 kit from Special Hobby.  China received at least two small batches of these aircraft: Dan Hagedorn includes them in his comprehensive works by their NA numbers - the original orders that is, not the specific examples that reached the BVAF.

[Dave Fleming]

As an aside, the only pic I recall seeing of the 'Yales' was in Eyes for the Phoenix; The Aeromilitaria issue has the only known pic of the CW-22, which is the incidental reason I found Ley's query.

 

Been trying to piece together the history of the CW22 before it reached the BVAF, which is quite interesting.